Kiserian Maji Mazuri Centre and school has seen tremendous growth in infrastructure.
With help from Rotary Clubs in Ohio District 6670 in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Muthaiga, a health clinic has been built and is now awaiting furnishing and registration with the Ministry of Health to begin running. The Clinic will serve not only the children at the school but also the surrounding community.
Not only has Rotary built a clinic for the school but is adding an additional classroom block which will help to decongest and add rooms for the Girls High School which has now grown to 50 girls from the initial 30. We hope to have an increase of more girls in the high school next year as we add a new Grade 12 to the High School.
The biogas plant has been completed and is now being used to cook for the children. Gone are the days of using firewood and saw dust thanks again to Rotary that funded the biogas digester. The digester will also be a teaching and sensitizing point for the community to conserve trees by using renewable energy to cook.
The new Heifer International cows also calved 3 new calves 2 female and one bull. However due to the policy of gift giving by Heifer the 2 females will be donated to another farmer but subsequent calves will remain Maji Mazuri’s. A new rabbit hatch was also built to accommodate growing number of rabbits.
The Greenhouses have been planted with tomatoes and we expect a good harvest sometime next year. The rest of the farm has cabbages, capsicum and more tomatoes as well as some kales growing well. Additional irrigation has been added to the farm courtesy of Rotary as well as overhead irrigation tanks to increase the water capacity into the farm for better crop production.
The Dormitory was also fitted with solar water heater for the children to take hot showers and the kitchen to have hot cooking and washing up water.
Our Grade eight class of candidates sat their Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exam and we hope that the candidates will have done well. The exam results are expected to be out by end of December.
The Primary school acquired 3 new teaching staff in the Upper Primary Section and the High School acquired one new staff member. The students also attended various friendly matches with neighbouring schools and the High School choir visited 3 churches during the term and hosted a church youth group in the school.
